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microtechnology

British  
/ ˌmaɪkrəʊtɛkˈnɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. technology that uses microelectronics

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In our times, the integration of springs in silicon-based microtechnology has opened the world of planar mass-producible mechatronic devices from which we all benefit, via air-bag sensors for example.

From Science Daily

An approach with superconducting bits might be particularly well suited, though, Crutchfield says, because “it’s familiar microtechnology that is known to scale up very well.”

From Scientific American

The Commerce Department ban will hurt Jinhua because the company likely relies on a handful of California-based companies that dominate the global supply of microtechnology that stacks, connects, cleans and measures the wafers that go into making chips.

From The Wall Street Journal

After high school, she moved to Nantes to study microtechnology, specializing in the working of microscopic surgical instruments.

From New York Times

But in the current political situation, Iohannis, a former member of the National Liberal Party, does not hold much sway, and it may be too late to roll back Valeca’s decisions, says Antonio Marian Rădoi, a chemist at the National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnology in Bucharest and a board member of Ad Astra.

From Science Magazine